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PhD Fee-Waiver Scholarship University of Aberdeen

 PhD Fee-Waiver Scholarship University of Aberdeen
Summary:PhD Scholarship
Deadline: 06 June 2014
Date Posted: 23 April 2014
Details: The Department of Music at the University of Aberdeen is pleased to announce a PhD fee-waiver scholarship open to home, EU and overseas students who intend to start in October 2014. We are particularly interested in accepting applications from those who show potential in conducting practice-based research through composition, sound installation, and/or creative coding.

This research aims to investigate Sonic Arts practice through the lens of artists’ engagement with place through technological media. Its methodology is both theoretical and practical in that the PhD student will not only examine the Sonic Arts practice of the past and present through literature review and analysis of selected work, he or she will also create original Sonic Arts work in the form of electroacoustic compositions, interactive or immersive sound installations and live electronic performance through which new approaches to sound-place constructs are proposed and put to test.

We encourage research projects that have the potential to make a substantive contribution to the above research theme through the rigorous application of existing methods, and projects that reflect on practice within and across discipline boundaries and those that explore methodological approaches.

Research areas: electroacoustic composition, interactive or immersive sound installation, digital audio production, creative coding, sound synthesis and DSP, interactive programming and experimental music, live electronic performance, sound studies (cultural, historical and technical aspects), radiophonic composition, or audio-visual work.

The successful PhD candidate will become a member of SERG (Sound Emporium Research Group; www.serg-aberdeen.net), an active sonic arts research group at the university. Based on its research theme, New Approaches to Sound and Place, SERG members work on various inter- and cross-disciplinary research and artistic projects. In addition, thanks to the close relationship that the music department has with sound festival (sound-scotland.co.uk), the PhD student will have access to a wide range of opportunities working with the festival both as sound artists and performers, and also programme coordinators and technical assistants.
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